China is making headlines with its groundbreaking development of electric plasma jet engines, a technology that could reshape ...

Every missile is, at heart, a rocket. Rocket propulsion follows Newton’s Third Law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Burn fuel and expel gas out the back, and the missile is ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system.

Tang’s approach differs from other plasma propulsion systems, such as those used by ... The prototype already achieves a jet pressure of 24,000 newtons per square meter with 400 watts of ...

INTRODUCTION. Compared with chemical propulsion, ion electric propulsion has significant advantages, such as small thrust, high specific impulse, long life, and continuous thrust regulation, which can ...

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced the successful completion of a 1,000-hour life test on its 300 Milli Newton Stationary Plasma Thruster, that is developed for induction in the ...

At the time of writing, a rocket travelling from Earth to Mars - a 140-million mile journey - on a modern propulsion system takes around a year; a plasma-powered ship would need just 30-60 days.

Rosatom’s propulsion system uses a magnetic plasma accelerator, which it hopes will reduce space travel time. Mars is 140 million miles from Earth, meaning a 30-day journey would require an ...

More information: Chen Cui et al, Vlasov simulations of electric propulsion beam, Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2024). DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/ad98c0.